ASTi Brings Remote Training to Customers

This year, ASTi diversified its training program for remote customers across the globe, providing training at the point of need for its Telestra and Voisus products. These courses create an interactive learning environment using video conferencing platforms, such as WebEx, Teams, and Zoom. ASTi can also deploy Direct Connect Online (DCO), the U.S. Department of Defense’s enterprise collaboration tool, for military customers.

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In the virtual course, an instructor runs Voisus or Telestra software alongside a video-conferencing platform, leveraging features like file-sharing, screen-sharing, a concept board, and 4k resolution. Instead of watching static tutorials, students practice course concepts on their own workstations, collaborating with instructors and peers.

The course includes five, four-hour sessions broken into targeted modules (e.g., high-level architecture, text to speech, Level D tuning, speech recognition). Now team members can tune into the modules that apply to them, saving time. There’s no need to travel onsite, which eliminates flight, dining, and hotel costs.

ASTi recently completed a virtual training course for a large government contractor. Modeled after ASTi’s Telestra Training Manual, the course covered basic concepts and demonstrated how to build sound models in ACE Studio. The customers used their newly acquired skills to develop a sound model matching their exact requirements, avoiding tedious paperwork and export restrictions.

Eric Stopper, an ASTi engineer and instructor, describes virtual training as “flexible and accommodating... to ensure this necessary training is meeting the needs of our customers.” This modern design “opens the door to expand training options for a hybrid training experience...”